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Thursday, September 17, 2015

Busting Barriers

When my
son Will was very, very small, he and I went to visit my Mom and Dad one
day. We played outside in the country,
and I did my best to get him good and tired so he’d sleep well in a different
bed. That night, I took him into the
bedroom, where my Mom had set up a little portable crib. I read him a story, said a prayer with him,
and tucked him in. I breathed a sigh of
relief and walked down the hall to the den to sit in peace and quiet with my
parents. After maybe a minute, I felt a
presence right at my shoulder. I turned
around and saw Will standing there, with a huge grin on his face. He said, “I back!” He had never climbed out of a crib before, and he was so proud of himself.

As
we’ve been saying for over a month now, what the world needs now is
reconciliation with the God who made us.
Our job as the Church is to reconcile man to God (2 Corinthians
3:18). We’ve been studying the book of
Acts, seeing what it looks like when a church accomplishes its God-given
mission. And as we showed last week, you
can see Acts as the story of the Devil putting up barriers, trying to contain
the good news about Jesus, and the church continually knocking those barriers
down. A Church with Jesus in charge is
like little Will; they just climb out of whatever barrier the enemy sets up and
say “I back!”This week, we'll look at some of the barriers the Church overcame in the days of Acts. We'll see an amazing story of God pushing through a barrier no one thought would ever fall. And we'll talk about the main barriers we face today.